Our Quotes

Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.

You have your children and it's hard to even hold it in - emotionally.

Our closeness to the Lord will, in great measure, determine the peace and comfort and renewed strength that we feel as we invite the Spirit into our lives.

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.

I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.

And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

I just didn't like the way we were, in my opinion, being unfairly attacked. I just decided to do what was right for our family.

I always had an interest in the environment... to protect our planet... for the ocean to go on.

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

Choices are our choices so I am not taking away anyone's personal choice, but we run into difficulty when we're having choices made for us rather than making our own.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

There is a huge value placed in our world on doing what everyone else is doing and thinking as everyone else is thinking.

We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.

Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world.

Take care of your relationships and the sales/money will take care of itself.

As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world.

I realize now what a great job my wife Michelle did, not only in raising our children, Melissa, Amy, Dustin, and Jenna, but in taking care of me.

Our children are our most important assets.

We can't change the past, but we can look to the future, and we can - we can hold ourselves accountable, to our - not just to our - our children but to all aspects of the - the world we interact with

The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.

It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives.

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.

We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.

Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population stabilization.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her - that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now.

Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.

Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.

My belief, through my experiences, is that the world in which we live is but an illusionary world, a world that one day we will leave behind as we travel on toward our destiny and toward reality.

The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives.

My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you'd think there was no irony. The irony isn't meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

There is another component that makes us who we are. It is a fantasy comprising all of our actions and thoughts. It’s called an opinion. And we will die for our opinion